Originally Posted by
DSJR
Since this is a general amp discussion and as Marco says I can as long as it's not trolling a single-make discussion, I'd like to briefly put a shout in for the NVA AP50 or even AP70, which with their phono stage will fit your budget. Maybe someone up north owning similar would be willing to do you an open house so you could listen to something if you weren't prepared to stump up the readies on a sale-or-return basis?
The Rega amps need an hour or so to fully come on song, so hope the dealer doesn't just pull it off the shelf stone-cold.
Moon? How easy would it be to sell on later? I blame some of the mags for this, that only have a very few thousand circulation (HFW is reportedly down to a couple of thousand now and HFN around triple this worldwide). They rave about all sorts of little known crap and this stuff ends up very quickly on the used market for a fraction of its selling price in my experience.